Clintons To Testify On Epstein Files, TX Special Election Swings Dem, And Rome Responds

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So, the first date involved Tribute Pursuit and Little Caesars Pizza, and going to Mass together on the Feast of the Assumption. And then, one of the, I don't know if it was the second, third, fourth, fifth date, whatever it was, she's like, hey, I got some time before I go to work. Do you want to go get some lunch? And I'm like, uh, I'm like, I'm broke. Oh, I was wondering where you were going with this. I was about to sell my condo, and I have literally no money because I poured all the money into it, and the sale didn't go through for a few more days.

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Thank you. Erika did some judging this morning. No problem. So, uh, the Clintons, the Clintons have now agreed to testify. And, actually, in a pretty surprising move, I don't know if surprising, but they actually want it to be public, so that will add to another spectacle. The second thing we have today is that, this happened last week, but it was kind of a surprise swing election, and I want to get Josh's take on this, a pretty surprising Democrat swing in a special election in Texas.

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All right, let us get into it. Actually, before we get into that. It got hot in the comments last time. We really stepped in it Monday, guys. I don't know about stepped in it, but obviously a very hot button issue with the SSPX, and there's some people on us for not being specific enough in our language. I want to provide Eric the opportunity to correct, and then I actually did have a lot of people go check out Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, and I listened to a lot of Dr.

K yesterday, and it did kind of inform, I guess, what I was thinking, although it seems to me that he came to about the same conclusion. With this public statement on the SSPX saying it's the nuclear option, obviously conflicting feelings about it. So, yeah, just say that, and then Erika, I'll let you just start. Yes. So, at one point in the show on Monday, I did say that the sacraments of the SSPX, that some of them were invalid, or that these Episcopal ordinations would be invalid, and I immediately corrected myself.

I did say, I mean illicit, but obviously, most of us hear the first word that comes out of the person's mouth. So, I just wanted to take this opportunity to make the distinction, because this is actually really important for all Catholics to understand. The distinction between an invalid sacrament and an illicit sacrament in any area of our lives. So, invalid, if you call a sacrament invalid, what you're saying is that it's not real. So, sacraments have form and matter. So, if you say it's invalid, you're saying that somehow the form of their matter is messed up.

And an example would be like using the wrong words at baptism. Like there was a trend in the 60s or 70s to baptize kids in the name of like the creator, redeemer, and something. Invalid. Wrong words. Not real. Baptism did not work, right? Or if you're trying to ordain blue-haired women in Kansas, that actually happened. There's women in Kansas who think they've been ordained, but sorry, the matter's wrong because you're not a man, so you can't be ordained. So, those would be unreal, invalid sacraments.

Those are distinct from when the sacraments are illicit, which refers more to being unlawful. So, A sacrament can be valid or real, like it can really work. For example, the ordination of a priest, but it might be illicit because the lawful authority of the church has said to that bishop, you can't ordain priests, right? Or in this case, you can't ordain these bishops, as happened with Lefebvre back in at the beginnings of the SSPX and is apparently like plans to happen now again this coming July.

So, It's illicit, not invalid. Thank you for the correction. Really appreciate it from the chat, because, yeah, words really do matter. We're Catholic. We're people of the word. Yeah, and I went and checked out Dr. K, and I think one moment I was listening to his interviews. He did two interviews with Pints with Aquinas, and I felt like Matt was a good interviewer for this because he's, I feel like, similar to us in that we're, a lot of people listen to the show that have not listened to the show before.

We're obviously very friendly to tradition and orthodoxy here at the show. We are not the type of people that are going out and demonizing the Latin mass goers. Um, actually, like, my family attends, uh, Institute of Christ the King. Like, I'm pretty familiar. I'd say I'm more familiar than, like, a true Norman Catholic. But even Dr. K, like, when he was saying... So, in terms of leaving the church, I think you described it, and it was an interesting way for me to think about it all.

Some people think of the church as this golden chariot with arrows bouncing off of it, triumphantly taking on all of the evils in the world, and he said a better analogy would be the church being like a pirate ship in which everyone on the ship is fighting, and the sails are tattered. No one knows where they're going. It's rocky waters out there. And, but, the only way that you will certainly die is if you jump off the ship into shark-infested waters.

And I think that, um... Even Dr. K, in his response, he's clearly very friendly to SSPX. He has many frustrations about how the liturgy and recovation after the 1960s in Vatican II took out a lot of the traditions of the church in terms of even changing the breviaries to remove certain elements of the Psalms. I get it. It's all a story that we maybe see and experience, but haven't been able to put our finger on as well as maybe he can.

But, you know, doing something that would leave the church, remove yourself from the authority of the Catholic Church, is the nuclear option. I don't think anyone wants it. And Rome, at this point, has actually responded, saying that conversations are ongoing, and hopefully some resolution happens before that six-month deadline. I would just say, in general, like, that's probably my share of those thoughts. I think they did the deadline just to get Rome to get off their duff and to do something.

Hey, I'm not a... It's possible. I mean, yeah, there's all kinds of, like, you know, PR games, you've got to go public, and... I will say this. Yeah, go ahead, Josh. You know, someone said, oh, we needed a traditionalist in the... Whatever. I'm not a traditionalist. I'm a conservative who has a lot of appreciation for tradition.

I think I've been very outspoken on that over the years, and I would just say, you know, with regards to this, I don't know as much about this kind of stuff as others, but I have a deep affinity.

For those who love the traditional Latin Mass, and I've always been a strong supporter and advocate for them, and I'll also note, I find it peculiar that the church, at many times in the past, have been very strict and strident against traditionalists when they step out of line a little bit, and then you'll have someone like a James Martin.

The Jesuit who openly advocates for wild forms of human sexuality, totally opposed to church teachings, and not only does he not get reprimanded, he gets promoted. That is not lost on me. Certainly. Certainly. All right, cool. Moving on now to B Block. So, the headline that caught my attention was the Clintons have indeed agreed now to testify after previously saying that they would not testify about the Epstein situation.

And they would be testifying in a congressional investigation led by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. That's shared by James Comer, and it's about Jeffrey Epstein and related crimes. They agreed to appear for a transcribed film deposition, closed door and under oath. But then, as of this morning, or I believe yesterday, 10 hours ago, they asked for a public testimony, which was interesting to me. Their rationale was they didn't want things to be leaked or things to be edited. They just want to do it in public and get it all out there.

That being said, you know, do I think that this is going to bring about, you know, bomb throwing in any way? There's a real chance they just get up there and plead the Fifth Amendment. They deny, they deflect, and we don't get anything. But, what was interesting to me, and I don't know if this tickles Josh's fancy, that nine Democrats actually jumped over the line to vote to potentially hold the Clintons in contempt if they did not comply with the subpoena.

And it was in Politico this morning, they're talking about this generational gap to the late 1990s. It was the driving force behind the modern-day Democratic Party's decision to hang former President Bill Clinton out to dry. A youthful vanguard of progressive officeholders unlikely to even recall the Clintons. Clinton presidency have largely opted against defending him. Nine Democratic lawmakers voted in favor of holding the Clintons in contempt over their reluctance to give House testimony on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And the line is, anyone should be held accountable regardless of political party, said Representative Sarah Jacobs, Democrat from California, who is unsure whether Democrats would have been less likely to hold a former president of their own party in contempt two decades earlier.

I don't know, man. I was in kindergarten, the 37-year-old Jacobs said. I mean, time marches on. Time does march on. I'll say this about Clinton, though. My good friend, Tim Kearney, made the point that for people of our age, Tim and I are about the same age, no one feels like he was president longer than Bill Clinton, because all throughout high school, all throughout college, that son of a gun was still there, and it was just like, ah, graduate from college, still president.

But I think Sarah Jacobs and some of those other progressive liberals who decided to go ahead and threaten to vote to hold President Clinton in contempt, there is a strategy there. Don't really disagree with the strategy. I think the strategy they're going for is, in case something does ever come up with regards to Donald Trump on Epstein Files, they'll be able to say, look, I hold every president accountable. I mean, I think it's a smart, wise move on behalf of people who normally don't have a ton of wisdom, but I'll give better words, too.

Yeah, and I think that... Right, respect's game. Go ahead. Yeah, this is never, this is, it's never going to go away. Like, our whole life, there's going to be, the Epstein Files are just sort of like the treasure trove that keeps on. Giving millions of pages and hundreds of hours of tape, and I have no doubt that as soon as we have a Democrat majority in Congress, the Trumps will be called up to testify as well. So, we're going to get the Clintons.

We'll get the Trumps. Will the Obamas escape? Who knows? Everyone, whatever party is in power. The House can't force the sitting president. To testify, they can ask. Right, but in three years, he won't be the same president. But yes, after he's out of office, they could do that, yeah. Yeah. So, I guess this goes back, and these would just be my general observations. A lot of people now have given their takes. They've broken down different elements of this massive release we got over the weekend, and I've had some more time to sit with it.

So, I guess first, what was immediately clear to me is- All of these, this is important, it was important or interesting to me because it was a crystal clear view into how power actually operates. And that's why I think it will keep coming up over and over again, because I don't know if I've ever seen such intimate details of correspondence between all of the power brokers for politicians, business leaders.

There are organized crime bosses all over the world, so this will be infinitely interesting, let's put it that way. It's interesting to me that it came out now, and I think the Trump administration has certainly completely bungled what came out, but I think that there was a little bit of a mutually assured destruction thing going on where the party out of power They love to hold over the party in power to say, hey, they're complicit, they're not releasing, but then shut up as soon as they got into power.

Because what's clear to me is, like, Bill Clinton and Trump were friends in the 80s and 90s. I mean, they were at least associates all around the same circle of power. No, they were friends. I mean, they went to each other's weddings and that kind of stuff. Right, exactly. So, it was like, they're all kind of on the same team in a way. And then, the Trump administration comes out, and this is, you can't say you're the most transparent administration in history, and then trot out Kash Patel, trot out Pam Bondi, to say that there was no evidence of blackmail.

No, direct quote, no evidence of blackmail, nothing to actually spur an investigation. And after this was released, which I guess they just never thought this would get released, I mean, there is a A utopia of blackmail information here. To Bill Gates, to leaders of countries, business leaders all over the world, you know, kind of nod, wink emails about assassinating people. It's just, it was crazy that they thought that they could just say there was nothing here, because all the conspiracy theorists were kind of proven right by this latest drop.

The documents also were delivered in a weird way. So, they had a lot of duplicate emails in this, and what would happen would be they'd be exactly the same, but different parts were redacted from the email. So, it would be like someone's first name, and then redacted last name, and then the next one would have nothing redacted, so you'd see the last name. So, you're kind of like, I thought... You could piece it together. Right, but not even piece it together.

Like, they're the same email. It's just... That's what I'm saying. Well, and we now have a judge who is considering putting some of this back under lock and key because of a failure to redact the names of some innocent minors who were named in there, who were told they would never be named, their names would be redacted, but they weren't. And it just, it seems very sloppy to me, and the way that I took it was, up until the last moment.

They, whoever's, who's they, like the big they, whoever's in power, whoever is sitting on this was like, oh, we're going to hide it. Pam Bondi is going to take care of it. Kash Patel is just going to kind of like gloss it over. People won't bother, won't forget. And then when they actually had, when Congress actually passed the law saying that they had to publish all of this, they were in a rush. Like, it just looks sloppy to me. And so it's, again, millions of pages, thousands of hours of videotape.

Audio. I mean, you would need armies and armies of people to do a good job redacting. So, to me, it doesn't seem insidious or like, I mean, there's obviously really wicked stuff going on that's being documented here, but the actual lack of consistency with the redactions, it's just sloppiness. 4D chess. So, one theory is they used AI for this and did a horrible job, right? Like, AI, horrible job, really sloppy, had to get it out. But they also waited a month after the deadline they were supposed to get it out, so it is not like they did not have time to be a little bit more specific.

So, 4D Chess, it just came to my mind, what if they did this knowing that the names were unredacted, knowing that a judge would say, oh, well, we got to put it back under lock and key, and then it comes back. I do not know. Just throwing that out there. Maybe, or I could agree with Lori Darby in the chat, who says, powerful men doing devious things. Duh. Great. I am shocked, shocked. I get to that. Don't worry. You can be patient.

Epstein visited the White House 17 times during the Clinton administration, and his work dates back a lot farther than what people think. I think what was immediately, just observing all of the rollout, I think the people People that focus on the sexual deviancy element of it, and just like, oh, he's just a weird sex guy, and then don't get past it, are, I don't know if they're doing it on purpose, or they're just trying to focus your eyes on the shiniest part, and not going back to, say, the 80s, where he was intimately involved in something called China Gate, which you can just look up, facilitating the financing of political parties through China.

And to me, you get the emails all the way back. Another interesting thing about this, too, is many of the people still in power today Um, actively just lied about their involvement with Epstein, when they were involved, how late they were involved, uh, you know, lied or now like conveniently white lying by omission. Like the one that comes to mind immediately is Elon Musk is like, I never stepped foot on the island. I was never involved with that gross guy. There's emails of him saying what day slash night would be the wildest party would be the wildest party on your island.

So You know, you can put that out in public, and maybe, I guess, it's technically not a lie, but to, you know, make it seem like you weren't involved, I mean, that's pretty bad. The other one that was interesting to me is Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon, so the long video interview, so there's like hours of video interview. Oh, my gosh. It was apparently a part of a documentary to rebrand Jeffrey Epstein into a philanthropist after his first trafficking conviction, because at that point, he already had the public.

baggage and weight of that thing, even though he still had all the friends, Richard Branson also helped him out with that. Um, crazy Woody Allen was going to help him with this video. Um, it's basically, uh, it's pretty clear. I mean, there's so many emails with Steve Bannon that he was kind of his PR right-hand man and that he was making the same kind of philanthropist, um, pivot that a lot of people make after they make money illicitly. And so, to appear is kind of like, oh, no, like, I donate, you know, I'm like, whatever, and then no one looks any deeper.

It does not look good for Steve Bannon. It does not look good for Steve Bannon. I mean, he was, like, intimately, intimately involved. Bill Gates was the crazy one, too, and, you know, you get now Melinda being interviewed about it.

So, this was the one that I was like, it's crazy to say there's no blackmail in here, because he received an email from Jeffrey about how he had He picked up an STD from a Russian prostitute or underage girl, I'm not sure, and that he was trying to slip Melinda medication for that. Bill was trying to slip medication for that without her knowing about it, and then he used it basically as a threat to be like, hey, I know about this situation.

You should basically give me this money for this purpose. All in email form, right? And I think what immediately sticks out about all of this is how brazen. So, in two parts. This was like an unsecured email server. This was Gmail. This wasn't like, you know, a closed server where whatever, like... Yeah, he was about as good at security as Hillary Clinton was. I mean, that's the level. But I guess, isn't that the point? Like, he felt like he was above everything untouchable, that he didn't even need to do that.

Like, it almost wouldn't matter, which is crazy, because now we have all of this, and we might not have this if it was a little bit more secure. Howard Lutnick also caught in a lie about when the last time he was his neighbor at one point said, oh, no, I thought he was gross, and then you get emails about him in St. Bart's way after that date. So, I guess I was surprised with how many people publicly lied just expecting this to never come out.

Peter Attia, the longevity guru. Really bad look here, but I guess, let's just say main point, because, and also, Trump is involved. Although, there was no, like, smoking gun Trump was. Did anything? There was something about Ghislaine being at his mansion and talking about a girl, but it said in the email that Trump didn't do anything. So, anyway, interesting with the Trump stuff, but the main point that I would like to present to you, Josh, is that what frustrates me with the conversation is people will say, you know, I saw Michael Knowles' thing on this, and I see some people in the chat is like, Oh, like, we're going to learn all we're going to learn about Epstein, right?

Like, we're not going to get any new information. This is just going to be, like, you know, shocking. People are into weird sex stuff. There's people like this out there. The problem is that these emails described that they're actually, it confirmed that there's a transnational cabal of billionaires, businesses, and politicians that operate outside of the bounds of national justice, and that the people that are supposed to carry out the justice. ...are complicit in the crime, specifically our Department of Justice, but also just about every country's function of legitimate justice.

And, again, unsecure email account, brazen, this is obvious. I mean, I was trying to list all of the people that he was involved with, but organized crime, banking executives, multiple intelligence agencies, U.S., U.K., Israel, France, Russia, China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc., etc.

I mean, there's a lot of bad people, a lot of people in positions of power in business, finance, government that might be able to get away with horrible things. What is the news here? Let me get to my point. The difference is not that there's been corrupt. Power brokers throughout history, like even go back to Tammany Hall was like one that I thought of where you control the local political parties and you expand, right? Like Machiavelli, this has always existed. The difference is that we now have, through technology, have transnational connected through technology, Silicon Valley, that kind of thing, with the power to literally surveil the globe and actually come up with predictive algorithms about your likelihood to commit crimes.

The power that people now have. To influence your life is unlike any time in human history. And so, I think it's good for people to look into this to understand that there are seductive conveniences offered to you through technology that make you more dependent or give your data to people that have more power than ever to inflict it on your life. And so, this isn't meaningless stuff. I didn't say it was meaningless. I mean, it's a top 30 issue, for sure, but there's a lot of people who are like, this is the issue for which they are obsessed with, and I'm like, I can think of 29 things that are more, you know, have more of a greater impact on the lives of, you know, Catholics than this, but whatever.

I mean, it's not, I didn't say it was irrelevant. Catholic Church came out looking pretty good, actually. He was not a fan of the Catholic Church's emails, but strangely enough. Go ahead, Erika. That's not really an exoneration, but yeah. Right, exactly, yeah. Kind of like piggybacking on Josh, I think that the most disturbing thing here is the potential for sort of like mass blackpilling, right? That the anger and the obsession that the Epstein files has provoked, and rightfully so. We should be angry, but this is gross stuff.

Sex money power to the nth degree, but the danger, and Rod Dreher did a really, really good job of sort of breaking this down and seeing it in historical context. When you have this sort of these phenomenon of like mass formation of people around anger, and around this perceived perception of intentional malice in these spheres of concern over which you have no influence, right? And Kelsey talks about this all the time, right? Like our spheres of concern, and our spheres of influence, and the Epstein files, what they uncover is ...is sort of this, like, such a massive overview of sex, money, power, and evil, that we get this sort of, like, grip of common, like, this narrative that unites people in this common anxiety.

And I'm just going to read from Rod Dreher, and he's sort of like, this is where this could go if people can't get their heads on straight about it. He says, ...totalitarianism emerges from mass formation, which is largely the result of individuals being gripped by a common narrative... That unites them in a heroic battle against an object of anxiety. We're seeing this right now in the anti-ice protests, right? People are actually dying for this. Thus, the real meaning of the Epstein files is not likely to be found in its pages, but in what some ambitious genius convinces an increasingly polarized, increasingly anxious, and increasingly Weimarized, like Weimar Germany, American populace, to think that they mean.

And we should worry. History shows that there is no limit to the absurdity of what crowds will believe if the conspiracy offers them relief from overwhelming anxiety. The enigmatic Jeffrey Epstein and his elite network can be almost anything you want and need them to be, except a total fiction, which is what makes them all the more powerful. And I think that that's the danger to watch with the Epstein files. And what Josh is saying is so important that we can't let this blackpill us into inaction of like, oh.

We're just sort of ruled by these overlords, and we need another overlord to come in and smash it. I guess I would disagree with that. I agree, I guess, in one part, because... My point is that there's the transnational coalition of power now that's collected at a rate that's never been collected before because it's now all over the world and it's possible through technology. And those people are designing things to influence the intimate parts of your lives through algorithms and dependence upon, say, payment systems or everything, even cars now.

Cars drive themselves. That's another freedom taken away from you. And so, I think that there's really positive incremental steps you can take to create friction between yourself and... Oh, Josh left again. Oh, left again. He's sick of the Epstein files. Sick of the Epstein, but so I'm just saying it's a good lesson to take away to be like, hey, buy physical books. Don't raise your kid on an iPad. Try to, you know, have your own chicken so you can have your own eggs.

I mean, just like little things. To remove your dependency on these things, but I almost don't like how Rod— I guess I understand what he's getting at and the potential for it to be abused, but what we just saw is that to think that there's just one Jeffrey Epstein is so unbelievably naive. There's a Jeffrey Epstein in every town and every center of power in the world, but what this gave us is that the conspiracy that there's collaboration between the elites of different countries and business people from different countries with said elites and then the gray zone actors.

Was all exonerated by these emails. So, instead of being, it's almost like, hey, you should be mad of the mob that forms after these horrible transgressions, instead of being mad at, you know, the tech brokers of the world that are trying to program your lives, and the people that actually thwart the popular will of the people in America to do things not in the national interest, which we've had for 30 years, the entire time these emails have been gone. And so, you're telling me, no, you got to be careful.

People might get too mad about that. They might get mad about the problems that people aren't being punished for because they could get whipped up in a frenzy. Instead of just acknowledging, we should be punishing the people. We should be punishing the people.

You keep saying to me that these Epstein files show a lot of corruption, a major network of people that are trying to conspire against free men and women. That are still in power. And we say, we agree with you. Yes.

And we're just like, don't become despondent because of this, and don't obsess about it ad infinitum. That's all we're saying. Okay. But be worried about the mob that gets whipped up over this, over the actual transgressions against you. I think that people need to be punished. I guess the problem is that the levers for punishment are complicit in this. I think we agree with you. Yes, we are agreeing. Everyone's getting a trophy today. We all agree that the people who are named in this, who have done devious, horrible things, should be punished.

The reality is, that's probably not going to happen, this side of the Jordan River. This is like Judgment Day stuff, and so I think we're agreeing with you that what matters is, in many ways, how you react to this, how you continue to live your life. Yes, chickens, but also things like we should fight for the SAVE Act. That would have a really big impact on the next few elections, whereas we're not going to see the Saudi prince prosecuted for his trafficking in Russian women.

That is not going to happen. And so, I think that we're agreeing that in terms of how you react to this is really, really important. Not that you should get mad at people for reacting angrily to this and going into being driven into the arms of Nick Fuentes or something, not to bring up another. I think my broader issue and what people would say is like, okay, the SAVE Act, who's influencing the SAVE Act? Well, clearly, Jeffrey Epstein talked in the emails about how that there was a tax loophole closed for the business people in his pocket.

And so, like, I think that maybe it'd be more effective advice to economically punish your overlords by removing your dependence upon them. That too, we can do that. You know, they have nothing but good, they have nothing but bad things for you, and they're influencing politics, as you understand. I think maybe it's just an anger over lack of rightful control that we are supposedly promised through the democratic process, which this just totally proved is a total mirage in many cases, or if not all cases.

Like, they'll just punish people that go against this organized cartel of power. I'm with Jerry Brainerd. What does Jerry say? Next topic, please. And I am not raising my own chickens. That's a no-dog. Dude, chickens are sick. How much chicken poop all over the yard? The kids can't run barefoot. Polly Market did predict the odds for Jesus Christ returning before 2027 doubled from 2% to 4%. I can't believe you actually wrote that.

I didn't write it. It's just facts. But hey, you know, Jerry and Josh, we can move on to the next topic. But before we do... We have the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast that we have to talk about, the theme this year, a nation under God celebrating the Catholic contribution to America's 250th years. March 18th, Vigil Mass and VIP reception at the DC Convention Center. March 19th, breakfast program starting at 7 a.m. ends at 9 a.m. ET. 1,500 plus attendees from across the country, over 50 Catholic exhibitors.

We are going to be represented there, right, Josh? Oh, yeah. We are a sponsor of The Breakfast, and I have been there from day one. I went to the first Breakfast 21 years ago. It is a fantastic event. Lots of different Catholic and political leaders in D.C. I cannot recommend it enough. It is just a lot of fun. There are, like I said, good speeches. There are vendors from all these different great Catholic enterprises.

And you just get to meet a lot of great people at this event. So, I got my ticket. I'm booked. I'm ready to go. Awesome. I do, actually, with all the Epstein stuff, if this doesn't push you into even harder religion, I've decided to become more hardened in my religious beliefs, and my dependence upon Jesus Christ has increased substantially because... Well, there's no doubt that it's a time that... As a country on our 250th anniversary, what better thing than to come together and to pray?

So, I encourage all Catholics, if they can, to come to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in D.C. If you can't make it. They usually have it on EWTN or streaming somewhere, but it's just a cool event to be in person. It's absolutely one of my favorites. Sweet. All right, bring us to the good news now. We could use some. Erika, what do you got? Yes, so this is great. The first European country to ban social media for teens is España. Olé.

I'm so excited. We saw this happen in Australia. Australia was the first major country to ban social media. At the end of last year, and this seems to have kind of broken the dam. Now we get Spain banning social media, so we're talking about TikTok was mentioned specifically, some Instagrams, all of this, but I loved this quote from the Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. I mean, could you think of a more Spanish name than Pedro Sanchez? This was just so sweet. He said, social media has become a failed state, a place where laws are ignored and crime is endured.

We're disinformation is worth more than the truth, and half of users suffer hate speech, a failed state in which algorithms distort the public conversation, and our data and image are defiled and sold. Spaniards who are under 16 will not be allowed on these platforms. All the platforms themselves will be forced to have age verification in order to access them. And yes, I think this is a great move for Spain. Hopefully, we have similar legislation in France and the UK about to pass as well.

And so, America, wake up. We've got Australia, we've got our brothers and sisters in Europe ahead of the game. Time to go. Let's get some age verification going. And you don't need the government to keep your teenagers off social media. Right, and you can just tell your teens they're not allowed to do it. Smash the screens in your home. Yeah.

Okay. Josh. Well, I, for one, am very excited to see Catholic political leaders stand up for law and order. The Archbishop of Detroit absolutely continues his reckless campaign against border security by writing an op-ed in the Detroit Free Press, and it's just unhinged. And it was nice to see Republican candidate Kevin Jaworski, if I say it pronounced, if I pronounce that correctly, sorry if I didn't. Polish brother. He published an op-ed in response to the Archbishop. He published it over at the Detroit News.

He said, as a Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General and former superintendent of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit, I am steadfastly committed to upholding the rule of law. This principle, rooted in justice and order, must guide all institutions, including Michigan's Catholic bishops, whose recent pastoral note on immigration sows confusion and contradicts hundreds of years of Catholic teaching.

Kevin is right, and I applaud him for his op-ed. In fact, I saw that this morning, and I went online, and I donated $100. Go for it, Kevin. All right. If you want to join me, go to kevin4mi.com, and you can throw him $100, too. Just absolutely hits the nail on the head. The fact of the matter is... You're not doing anything. This false sense of compassion and mercy that, you know, and Kevin got into this. It's like the bishops talk about mercy, they talk about compassion, they talk about all this stuff, but almost never say anything about the victims of crime.

They never say anything about people who've got their jobs displaced. You know, it's only, only, only, only the migrants. We do care about the migrants, of course. We care about all humans that are in our area and come into our country, but if they came in here illegally, we want to provide them an opportunity and the resources to safely return home, because there's this notion that you somehow simply cannot send somebody back home. If they got in here, You know, they sniff past the Border Patrol.

How dare you? How dare you send them home? It's like, give it a rest, Greta Thunberg. You know, this is such, it's such an absolute joke. I find it so distasteful, and I applaud, actually. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who yesterday defended, you know, and said, actually, he's not Catholic, but he's Christian. He's a very good Christian man. He said, you know, the Bible, there's nothing about the Bible that should be for open borders, and I just want to applaud what Speaker Mike Johnson said.

Supporting common sense border security. Doesn't contradict the Bible or the Catechism or the Catholic Church at all. In fact, it's open borders, which is anti-biblical and anti-Catholic. It is the Biden administration's reckless decision to allow millions of unknown people to flood into our cities and neighborhoods that has caused a tidal wave of human misery. It's not biblical at all.

To allow predators to roam our streets and murder young people like Jocelyn Nungere and Lichen Riley. The American people have a long history of compassion and generosity, but our political leaders have an obligation, first and foremost, to ensure the safety and protection of the citizens of this country. Not only is it not wrong. For Christians to support safe and secure borders, but actually, it's our obligation, and don't listen to anyone who would invoke the Bible to promote dangerous, open borders.

Dude, Josh just does that for the love of the game. Preach. That's pure. I don't like it when people invoke my Catholic faith and weaponize it against me in favor of reckless, dangerous... Open borders, leaving millions of people vulnerable to crime. It's despicable.

Word. All right, I'm going to go a different direction with the good news. You know, we don't have royalty here in America. We threw that off, but I think the closest thing we have to a royal family are, like, NFL quarterbacks. It's my Patriots quarterback. Erika, a little shout out to you. I'm a huge Patriots fan.

A quarterback, Drake May, married his childhood sweetheart, Ann Michael, last June, says he would advise all his teammates to get married young, adding he doesn't regret it one bit. I thought it was just very sweet. I definitely would advise them to eventually get married. It's one of the best things in life. It's one of the best things I've experienced in my life. There's no better feeling than coming home to a wife that loves you and cares for you and worried about your best interests.

I chose to get married young, and I don't regret it one bit, Drake, my brother. Really sweet, and just true. Like, I think we, yeah, we got to address all these hard issues, but it is true. It's just the best to get to. To go home to your wife, to live sacramental marriages is a blessing and a gift, so shout out to the boy, Drake. I still think the Seahawks are probably going to win, but... Yeah, it's unlikely, but hey, just to...

Everyone loves an underdog. Just to get to the Super Bowl after last year, I mean, they reversed their record. I'm so proud of the Patriots. I'm so excited. I think we're back. Yeah, the Super Bowl. That's what everyone said about my Vikings in the 70s. Just to get to the Super Bowl is an honor.

Yeah, we're 0-4, brother. At least you're not the Bills. Yeah, at least you're not the Bills. Okay, Josh, I wanted to take on this. There's lots of... Lots of hysterical takes on this special election in Texas. Actually, your boy, Ross Douthat, just said Trump lost America as well, too, so there's a lot of people overreacting. It's like it's our industry or something. Yeah, something like that. We should be a little bit more sensational. I probably don't need to do that. Okay, let's get into it a little bit.

What is the situation going on in Texas, and is this a bellwether for what is to come? Yeah, so I'll lay it out, and then I'm Explain it so that we can all understand. But last week, there was a special election in Texas. So, January 31st, it was a run-up, and Democrat Taylor Remmitt defeated the Republican Lee Wamsgans. Like Tom Wamsgans from Secession?

Maybe, but probably not. But here's the thing. The Democrat defeated the Republican by over 14 points, and this was in a district that went very wide for Trump. I believe it was 17 points in 2024. And all over the internet, people are saying this is a wake-up call for Republicans. Ross Douthat among them, but also just about anyone who needs something sensational to say, is saying, look, this is a bellwether for the midterms. If Texas can flip blue by this much of a margin, we are in big trouble going into the 2026 midterms.

And so, a little bit of context, and then, Josh, I'm just going to let you rip. The 2024 turnout in this particular district was 387,859. That is a lot of people. On Saturday, the turnout was 94,880. So, just a little context for the people, but Josh, what is going on here, and are we doomed for November? I mean, it's like... It's so good to make people love to do these draconian pronouncements on things. I mean, turnout was down 75%, as you noted, from 2024.

There also was a snowstorm, ice storm or whatever in Texas. So, that definitely suppressed turnout. It's also the case that the person that got elected ran as a, you know, blue-collar, you know, pro-worker candidate. This wasn't Jasmine Crockett, right? You know, liberal at all. He was talking all about working with his hands and being a pro-working man candidate, so that certainly helped. It is also the case that it is really hard to get people worked up about it because, literally, there will be an election on this seat in November, and this guy, the Democrat who won, how many days will he serve in the legislature before he has to go up for the voters' elections again?

Here is your hint. Zero. Like, the legislature won't even be in session before we have another election in this seat. So, you know, you have to get people riled up to vote for the candidate, even though it's only for a few months and you won't even be able to vote. Am I saying then it doesn't matter? No, I actually do think it matters. I mean, again, the Republicans spent a ton of money, Democrats didn't spend that much money at all, and the Democrats won.

So, is this a... Is it a good sign for Democrats in a year which could be really good for them? Yes, it is a good sign for Democrats. Is it a bad sign for Republicans? I mean, it's not a good sign. I just don't think I'm, you know, it's one snapshot. It's one little thing. And as we get more special elections and we get more information and more data, we'll be able to craft a picture. So, I think Republicans will come out of the November elections, you know, does this mean The Republicans have their work cut out for them?

Yes. Do I think it would take a really strong economy taking off like steroids for Republicans to win in November? Probably. So, if you ask me, gun to my head, who's going to win the House this November? I'm like, that's probably the Democrats. Democrats will probably win. They only have to win like six seats.

I mean, it's very easy to say they could win 20, 25, 30 seats, and they would take Congress. I mean, the chances are they probably are going to take the House, and we are going to get impeachment, and we are going to get investigations, and Hakeem Jeffries is going to become the Speaker of the House. That probably is the case. I mean, I thought that before this election. Okay, book it.

Okay, so let me ask you, because Ross's little video this morning was like three minutes long, and it was basically saying that the ICE stuff has lost America. And I will say, had conversations with family members, typically not super involved, that has certainly broken out to the mainstream, and Americans very disturbed, not just by the event, but also the response from the administration seemed very like an own goal, a shot in the foot, stupid. Even if they agree with, say, the principle of a secure border.

Is that a potent enough issue? To not just give the Democrats the edge in the House, but to, like, actually get into majority territory, like, to the point where it could seriously be, you know, a big change in power at 2020. Well, the real problem would be if the Democrats would actually take the Senate, too, because then, you know, if there's a, you know, a vacancy on the Supreme Court, you wouldn't be able to fill it. Right. That would be a major problem.

Obviously, the legislative stuff would come to a halt. I think, I'm not saying that the Big Beautiful Bill was flawless. There was a lot of problems with it, but there were some good things in there. Any good things in there that you're not going to get anything good after this, I think. I do feel like if the election were held today, yeah, obviously.

It would be very bad. I mean, it is like a guarantee that we would have lost the House. We still have, you know, nine months to go before the election, and Republicans need to get, you know, get to work. They need to pass more legislation that American people want. You know, there is another shot at that. You have another bite at the apple here. Do another reconciliation bill. Try to do what it takes to help people, you know, better afford health care.

Do some stuff like that. Show you are making progress and making a difference. We still may lose the House, but maybe we won't lose it by that much, and maybe we'll keep 53 seats in the Senate. That's what I really want. I don't want to lose any seats in the Senate, because we have 53 right now, but that's with two pro-abort Republican women.

So, it's really like 51, you know, and that means anytime there's an important thing, you know, it's like it could be you lose those two, and you know, you still got, you know. A little insurance there. So, Josh, if you're Clarence Thomas, do you retire this summer?

Well, I mean, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito are about the same age. I mean, they're only about 18 months difference, and so that if I'm Sam, I go to, I say, Clarence, are you just going to stay in the seat till you die? Is that your deal? I mean, I think so, and Clarence might honestly be like that, and so if I'm Alito, I say 20 years.

It's been pretty good. Actually, Saturday was his 20th anniversary. Yeah, maybe Sam Alito hangs up his hat, and this summer comes up to President Trump and says, I'll resign if you pick this person, and Trump says, I'll take whatever you do. Yes, I'll take it, and lock it in. Yeah, we don't want to do a reverse with Peter Ginsburg. Did you see he was joking about putting Ted Cruz in the Supreme Court? Oh, gosh. Okay, so I loved that. I played that for Josh on Friday.

Yeah. I do. I mean, you know, Ted Cruz is actually a very strong, you know, constitutional mind, and he would do very well, actually, I think, on the Supreme Court. And I just feel like some people are, you know, he's actually really awesome on the Judiciary Committee, but... Embarrassing on just about everything else recently. It's just that, you know, he's got a personality that doesn't... I know a lot of people are despondent about what's going on in Washington, so they want bomb throwers, but I mean, Ted Cruz just, you know, that's what Trump was joking about.

He kind of annoys everybody. Yeah, no, the joke was funny. Do you have any names in the back of your head of like, okay, next Supreme Court justice? I guess, yeah, William Pryor is probably too old at this point. He was one of my faves. I don't know.

You kind of put me on the spot there. I did. Think on it. But one thing I wanted to hit, because we have the research on it, there is a potential to, people are talking in the chat about the SAVE Act, and this is an opportunity to potentially get that done. What are we looking at there? Yeah, so just a quick catechism here. The SAVE Act is short for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, and quite simply, it is an act that would nationally require proof of U.S.

citizenship to register. To vote. And 36 states already have measures like this in place to greater or lesser degrees, but this would nationalize that requirement, which sets liberals' hair on fire. But under this bill, voters would need to provide documents like a passport, a birth certificate, naturalization papers, instead of just checking a box that says, yeah, I'm a U.S. citizen, check, wink. So, there we have a nice map there of the United States. You'll notice that most of the states with these sort of voter ID laws are.

Yeah, in the middle of the country. In fact, someone was saying Kamala Harris only won states that did not have voter ID. So, you can see why the Democrats are a little upset about the SAVE Act. They're screaming because... It's a tweak of that. All the states that don't require voter ID voted for her. There you go. Thank you. Much more accurate. So, the Democrats are saying, okay, this means that elderly black people...

Married women who had to change their name will be barred from voting. Oh, I remember that. I'm too stupid, apparently, to, like, change the name on my ID. Right. Yeah, Chuck Schumer got up and was like, this is a return to Jim Crow. Basically, the act passed in the House last year. All we need to send it to President Trump's desk is the Senate now. Do the vote and to pass on it. Well, this week, we got Senator John Thune. Once we got the government back open, people are like, okay, now, are we going to get a vote on the SAVE Act?

And we just, we got this from John Thune. We just don't have time, is what he said? No, it's not that. I mean, like, look, it was, you know, like the House Republicans saying, in order to pass this budget to keep the government open on time, we want to be able to do a talking filibuster where we actually force Democrats and Republicans to talk. Either in favor or against it, I get the play here, and soon said, I'm open to it, whatever.

It's like, whatever the conference wants, and then we get the bill passed into law, and then the conference, the rest of the people in the conference, like Republicans, that is, are like, yeah, no, we don't want to do the target filibuster, and I, look.

I get to be a little counterintuitive on this one, I guess. I mean, do I want this bill passed? I would love it to pass. I would love to have this, you know, come up for a vote, to talk about it, to debate it, to make Democrats look bad. The idea behind a talking filibuster is, it's essentially, it's not abolishing the filibuster per se, but the idea is you would need both, you know, Republicans would have to be completely solidly unified.

It's not forcing the Democrats to talk. It's forcing Republicans to talk and make sure they're talking and talking and talking and talking. Choose up a ton of calendar time. You won't be able to get any judicial candidates not confirmed. You won't be able to do really anything at all. It's a massive event. It would take a lot of effort, and you would effectively, by talking it out, you're transforming the rule. Even though you're not technically changing the rules, you are effectively changing what is going on in terms of the rules.

And so, you get your voter ID, and then we come to an election, and then the Democrats go, they get the Senate, you know, in a three-year, if they get the presidency in three years, they're nuking voter ID right away anyway.

So, I just feel like maintaining... What else has the Senate been... Sorry, Josh, can I stop you? Stop you. No, not. I say maintaining the current filibuster. And not forcing people to talk it out, but just maintaining the filibuster that 41 senators can stop something dead in its tracks is very frustrating. It's very annoying, especially when there's good legislation. However, we are so polarized, and the differences between the two parties have never been greater. And if we get a situation where, like, because of like, look what happened in 2020.

We had, you know, a Chinese flu. That got enough people to go, oh, Trump, I can't stand him. Democrats take power by the slimmest of margins. Biden won it by just a tiny percentage in three states, and they were able to get a ton of stuff done. If they had no filibuster, if they had nuked it, it would have been lights out for America. I do feel like- Who's saying nuke the filibuster? No one's saying nuke the filibuster. Well, people are saying.

I'm saying, if the Democrats had nuked the filibuster in 21, we would have been close to a civil war. I feel like it is very, very good, that it is very, very hard to pass legislation on a federal level, precisely because we have two parties that are so far apart from each other, but then each of us has power in any given election by the narrowest margins.

It's not like Republicans won the 24 elections by big, huge majorities, and we have like 30, 40 seats in the House, and we have like seven, eight extra senators in the Senate. You know what I'm saying? The elections that we have had in this country...

The only one that was really like a landslide of recent memory is 2008. With the exception of that, we've had extremely, very tight, narrow, narrow elections. I want our federal government. To make it very, very hard. I love it that it's hard to pass this up, because Democrats will Californify the entire country. Okay. You're talking about something we weren't even talking about. I'm confused how we got here. We were talking about making Democrats get on the floor and defend an unpopular thing, and you're like, well, they're too busy.

What are they doing? The Senate literally does nothing. They haven't done anything in so long. They pass memorandums of understanding, basically. We stand in support against whatever. They don't actually pass real legislation anyway, so I don't understand what time are we giving them back here.

I'd say get them on the floor, have them have to debate, and make Republicans be united. It's like a small ask for our senators. What else are they doing? Yeah, I mean, Rachel Bovard's argument this morning in the Federalist, she had a great sort of like rundown of how this could play out, is if Thune brings it to a vote, the Democrats are the ones who start the standing filibuster, right? And so, you end up with this, yes, it would take days, but each Democrat can only speak, you know, for, only speak twice, and they, just until they give out, most of them are octogenarians, so like they, they, Fall over at some point, and they have to go to the next Democrat.

So, eventually, you do get to a vote, and then you only need the 51 margin, right, the 51 threshold. So, to me, it's, I'm not sure. Yeah, I guess I'm not understanding what you're objecting to in Rachel's argument there, that why wouldn't we want, around the clock, Democrats having to defend or explain to Americans, 83% of whom want some kind of regulation of who gets to vote in our country. It's an 80-20 issue, so why wouldn't we want... Just a tremendous amount of legislative time.

It is not days. I mean, this thing would stretch out weeks and weeks. It would be a big enterprise, and again, just because it is technical. I love Rachel. I agree with her on 99% of things. I just think that this one, she is underestimating how it would change the Senate.

I'm cautious. Yeah, fair enough. Okay, twilight zone, Josh. All right. Let's talk about something that truly embodies the state of the liberal mind. Take me in there. I saw this. Someone passed this along in the tablet. Josh Greenberg is a digital media strategist who left Park Slope, New York, in early 2022. He said, my breaking point wasn't getting mugged. It was realizing the city had more sympathy for the guy that mugged me than they did for me. A week later, at dinner with his friends, Well, Josh's friends, these are people he's known for years.

They actually criticized him for pressing charges after his phone was stolen. They accused him of, quote, perpetuating cycles, unquote, and causing harm. He says, I think the Uber home was the first time I started Googling apartments in Miami. I don't want to feel insane for wanting basic public order. I just thought that was.

Really just fascinating. I mean, you know, people, we talked in the last episode, or the one before that, about domestic migration patterns, people moving from, you know, different states, they're fleeing blue states, and here's the, you know, New York City, the bluest blue city, and the bluest, just about the bluest state there is. The park's so popular. Absolute insanity. Tim Carney's brother, remember that one? Yep, that was a good one. The Park Slope populist kind of fits into this conversation, too, is John Carney's Why Zora Mamdani won, and it was people kind of like this, like the people that live in Park Slope, and some got out of there, clearly, because of this kind of thing.

So, I would say, just the only hope that this guy, as he moves to Florida, don't New York-ify Florida. Keep Florida sane. Yes. Did you see the ICE video, too? Of the black ICE agent being accosted by protesters, and they just tossed the most vicious slur, vicious racial slur. We can't repeat that here. I can't even say it. It was so bad against him, but it was only after, I believe, he said, are you a man to someone who's like this?

I was like, oh my gosh, man, this whole situation is just so... That's terrible. Well, I will say, you mentioned earlier about ICE, and obviously, the thing is with news... It takes a while for news to travel or whatever, and people's ideas, and what do you think about what happened in Minnesota, and so that caused that sort of negative effect. But the fact of the matter is, it has been well over a week, and there has been no additional bad news from Minnesota because of ICE.

Thank you, Tom Bowman. I just feel like as more and more weeks go by, and we have normalcy return to ICE operations in Minneapolis, and less of a spectacle, that will... That will cause a lot of, you know, that will get in the rear view mirror, so. Yeah, and hopefully, at his press conference this morning, Tom Homan was saying how the big story in the news Monday, Tuesday in Minneapolis was that Ice Watch-like activists were setting up these barricades in neighborhoods and, like, stopping people in their cars and running their license plates through these databases to make sure they weren't ICE, which is completely illegal.

I mean, you can't do that. Like, I can't just go to the end of my road and set up a. Not with that attitude, you can't. No, that's right. That's right. Tom Homan, he said that. So, I called local law enforcement. I told them they needed to take these down, and they did.

And I was like, oh, you can just do things. This is fantastic. He also announced he's removing 700 ICE agents and redistributing them across the United States because things are so much better in Minneapolis. He's like, we are getting into the jails. We are arresting people the way we want to arrest them. So, yeah, thank you to Tom Homan and to the Trump administration and to Trump for moving him in there and everyone else out. Let's bring it down, people. Let's get stuff done.

Word. Word. Erika, your question. Yeah, this is sad. I just wanted to use my time to ask for prayers for the students and the faculty, everyone over at Holy Innocence Parish and School in Long Beach, California. The school, it suffered this terrible break-in over the weekend. The staff came to find statues smashed in classrooms. I mean, you can see here, I saw one of those was a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd classroom with all the works just smashed on the ground, Mary, our Blessed Mother, just intense sacrilege.

The tabernacle, fortunately, the thieves and the vandals tried to get into the tabernacle to get the Eucharist, but they were not able to smash it open, but they sure tried, and this was just a terrible act, and really a sign of the spiritual warfare that we are also engaged in. So, if everyone could please pray for holy innocence. Parish and school for the victims, but also for these perpetrators, because this kind of deep anger and gross spiritual depravity is so sick that more than anyone, the perpetrators need our prayers for their conversion, and also that they'll be caught so that they can do penance for their sins.

Oh, and good news. GoFundMe, they were trying to raise $100,000 to start to repair, and within minutes or hours, I should say, within hours, it was well over the goal. So, God bless America. God bless America, indeed. All right, mine is Billie Eilish getting checked by the Indigenous.

What? So the Tongva tribe has confirmed that Billie Eilish's home is situated on its ancestral land, saying she has not yet reached out to them regarding her home. We appreciate the opportunity to provide clarity regarding the recent comments made by Billie Eilish, the tribe said. As the first people of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land.

Eilish has not contracted our tribe directly regarding her property. That is what we call a follow-up story. Wow. Immediately checked. And then an L.A. law firm offered to evict Billie Eilish from her mansion on behalf of the Tongva tribe.

Eilish's admission that she lives on stolen land gives the tribe a rightful action for possession as the true owner of the property. The 30-day notice is already written and ready to be served, so we'll see what happens. Nothing will happen, but it is a pretty sweet headline. The Tongvas might post up at the mansion. Just let them use the pool every once in a while.

Let the kids camp. Let the kids camp on the property. Yeah, checked. Checked by the indigenous. Oh, man. Oh, Billy. Oh, Billy. Yeah, the Grammys were more ridiculous than I at first thought. The more clips I was seeing, like Don LeMond was like a Don LeMond. An ovation for Don LeMond. He's definitely LeMond in those environments, but yeah, he's like a martyr. We're all white. Yeah, theaterkid.com.

Okay, daily prayer. Good show. If you want to email, LOOPcast.catholicboat.org. We've already got some very sweet offers of people in various locations across the country to do Time Across America, which is sick. Keep sending them in. I will reference. I appreciate the very sweet offers. I'm looking forward to heading around. If you want to support the show, you can join the Champions Club, CatholicVote.org slash champions. Best way to do that. Thank you to all of our champions here live in the chat and those listening at home.

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We have internal competitions about who can do the versal in the least amount. So, word games, if you are into that as well. So, we will end with our daily prayer today. It is the prayer to Mary, Mother of the Church by Pope Benedict.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Mary, mother of the yes, you listen to Jesus and know the tone of his voice and the beating of his heart. Morning Star, speak to us of him and tell us about your journey of following him on the path of faith. Mary, who dwelt with Jesus in Nazareth, impress on our lives your sentiments, your docility, your attentive silence, and make the word flourish in genuinely free choices.

Mary, speak to us of Jesus so that the freshness of our faith shines in our eyes and warms the heart of those we meet, as you did when visiting Elizabeth, who in her old age rejoiced with you for the gift of life.

Mary, Virgin of the Magnificat, help us to bring joy to the world, and, as at Cana, lead every young person involved in service of others to do only what Jesus will tell them. Mary, look upon the agora of youth so that the soil of the Italian church will be fertile. Pray that Jesus, dead and risen, is reborn in us and transforms us into a night full of light, full of him.

Mary, Our Lady of Loretto, Gate of Heaven, help us to lift our eyes on high. We want to see Jesus, to speak with him, and to proclaim his love to all. St. Thomas Morris, St. Fidelis, Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. Amen. Great show, gang. We've got The Deep coming for you tomorrow, and then another show on Friday. Have a great day. We'll see you then. Peace.